Le clown de cirque et d’ailleurs , son histoire , ses anecdotes …

My conference is all about clowns , with video projections, artefacts and samples of classic clowns numbers . It is an History of clowns , shown in pictures, commented and performed in an attempt to bring to life what makes clowning “universal” .

Les clowns ne cherchent pas à nous effrayer en revanche c’est le public qui craint parfois de rire … de peur de trop se dévoiler … Notre humour est révélateur de ce que nous sommes .

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Picture taken in 2017 . Berlin Circus Festival

Here a few moments taken in the last three years .It all started in 2016 when I decided there was more I could transmit by telling about clowns , than actually doing the clown as I had done before … leaving circus aside to widen my scope of humour . But I never forgot my heritage , I just sorted it out , and moved on .

Nobody owns history …

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photo J.M Coubart
Festival Hop Hop Hop de Metz 2016.

I try to talk about “what I know because I’ve been there” but in a broad way , this conference involves a mixture of study , memory and personal stage experience.

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Conférence au Pied en Coulisse , Belgique , janvier 2019

picture by Turlach O’Broin

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